Solution Architect

At DUAL North America, our core values dictate how we live and work. We are a group with independence and people at its heart and we are a home for talent with a unique culture: the biggest small company in the world. The focus on being a People First business has always been at the very heart of the Group;
Our vision was to create an independent business with a unique culture and one that would survive and thrive as a business controlled by the people working for it. And finding the most talented and entrepreneurial people to join the Group has been and will continue to be key. DUAL North America, Inc. is seeking a Solution Architect Classification:
Full time/Exempt

Reports to:

SVP Digital Implementations Travel: 10-20% Salary: $- $

Location:

San Diego, CA, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA, Philadelphia, PA, Hybrid Role Overview DUAL North America is seeking a Solution Architect to design practical, scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions that connect business needs with modern engineering delivery. This role partners closely with business, product, engineering, security, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams to shape solution direction, evaluate options, guide implementation decisions, and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and long-term technology strategy.

• Design end-to-end solutions that are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, cost-effective, and aligned to business capabilities.
• Create solution architecture artifacts, including current-state and future-state views, integration patterns, application designs, data flows, deployment models, and transition plans.
• Ensure solution designs comply with enterprise architecture direction, security standards, data governance expectations, regulatory obligations, and operational requirements.
• Evaluate solution options and make recommendations that balance business value, technical feasibility, implementation complexity, risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Provide architecture guidance throughout the solution lifecycle, from discovery and design through delivery, release readiness, production adoption, and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, product, and delivery teams to ensure successful implementation of approved architectures.
• Lead architecture reviews and design sessions to identify risks, dependencies, and optimization opportunities.
• Recommend technology platforms, tools, and design patterns that improve scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and modern application design practices where appropriate.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to project teams and business stakeholders, helping resolve design tradeoffs and unblock delivery decisions.

• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, delivery leaders, and engineering teams to understand objectives, constraints, dependencies, and desired outcomes.
• Translate business requirements into actionable solution designs, technical requirements, assumptions, decision records, and implementation guidance.
• Support business case development by evaluating solution options, costs, risks, and expected business outcomes.
• Collaborate with project and program teams to ensure architectural alignment throughout delivery.

• Participate in architecture governance activities by presenting solution designs, documenting key decisions, and ensuring adherence to approved standards and patterns.
• Review proposed solutions for consistency, interoperability, scalability, maintainability, security, and fit within the broader enterprise technology landscape.
• Identify and mitigate architecture, technology, security, and operational risks.
• Manage technical debt and support long-term modernization strategies across the technology landscape.
• Ensure technology solutions meet performance, availability, recoverability, and security requirements.

• Monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities that create business value.
• Drive innovation initiatives involving cloud computing, artificial intelligence, automation, data platforms, and modern architecture practices.
• Promote reuse, standardization, and architectural best practices across technology teams.
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